This programme is well
conceived and draws some truly moving playing. The coda to
Bridge’s Oration makes a serious challenge for the title of
‘most beautiful ending to a cello concerto’
Isserlis.

Schelomo is an extraordinary
work where Bloch seems to have created a new musical language
inspired by Jewish music dating back thousands of years.
Often mistaken for film music, Schelomo’s immediacy and
descriptiveness has influenced many film composers.

Isserlis plays the
‘Marquis de Corberon’ Stradivarius of 1726, formerly
owned by Zara Nelsova who was the first to record Bloch’s
Schelomo with the composer conducting.